Top 5 Vendors in the Automotive Ethernet Market from 2017 to 2021: Technavio

Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global automotive Ethernet market report. This research report also lists three other prominent vendors that are expected to impact the market during the forecast period.

The overabundance of sensors installed in the modern-day vehicles has led to the development of complex safety systems. As a result, this brings in a challenge of its own where the conventional wiring harnesses and connectors are incompetent to support the bandwidth requirements owing to high-speed data transmission. Emphasizing on this, OEMs are investing in the development of networking technologies that involves light-weight materials at low cost and higher bandwidth limit.

BroadR-Reach Ethernet is a technology designed to overcome electromagnetic interference as it uses a single twisted pair of unshielded copper wires, thus resulting in cost reduction of approximately 80% and weight reduction of 20% as compared with technologies such as low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS).

Competitive vendor landscape
“The global automotive Ethernet market is catered by many players. Broadcom catered to the major OEMs as of 2016. Other players also have significant share and are also into development of the next generation automotive Ethernet. Broadcom offers the BroadR-Reach Ethernet Technology used for automotive Ethernet. The technology was later licensed and made open source by OPEN Alliance,” says Neelam Barua, a lead automotive electronics analyst from Technavio.

The top five automotive Ethernet market vendors are:

Broadcom
Broadcom is an American semiconductor company, which is mainly involved in the manufacture of networking devices. Its product portfolio includes integrated circuits, cable converter box, wireless networks, Gigabit Ethernet, cable modems, network switches, VoIP, and other devices. The company has four business segments: wireless communications, enterprise storage, wired infrastructure, and industrial and others segments.

Marvell
Marvell is a leading manufacturer of storage and semiconductor devices. The company has divided its business into following segments: storage, mobile and wireless, networking, and others.

Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology is an American semiconductor manufacturing company. The company is a leading supplier of microcontrollers and analog and flash IP solutions. It manufactures microcontrollers, memory devices, and analog devices. The business is divided into following segments: microcontroller, analog, interface and mixed signal product, memory products and technology licensing.

NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors is a Dutch semiconductor company and is the fifth largest non-storage semiconductor supplier of the world. It provides an extensive portfolio of products that are segregated into 10 categories: discrete and logic, identification and security, interface and connectivity, media and audio processing, microprocessors and microcontrollers, power management, radio frequency, sensors, software and tools, and system solutions.

Toshiba
Toshiba is a Japanese conglomerate, which is into manufacturing of electronics, semiconductors, social infrastructure, computer hardware, medical equipment, home appliances, electrical equipment, official equipment, and elevators and escalators.